Litigation Support Technical Standards
by Mark Lieb



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  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • For Vendors
  • For Firms


    • Business Standards
  • Cost Codes
  • Outgoing Media Kit
  • RFQs
  • Quotes


    • Technical Standards
  • Media Labels
  • Bates Schemes
  • Native Files
  • File-Folder Names


    • Downloads
  • The Standard
  • The Book


    • Software Load Files
  • CaseSoft
  • IPRO
  • To Be Added


    • What Not To Do
  • Media Labels
  • Load Files
  • Transcripts
  • General Errors


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    2.02 Cost Codes for Litigation Support

    In order to facilitate the billing process the accounting department would like to have several pieces of information appear on every vendor invoice.

     

    1.       The client–matter number must appear on invoices, media labels and business correspondence (including emails) between Firm and vendor.

    1. The attorney's name, whose signature will authorize the invoice, must appear on the invoice.
    2. Cost code must appear on every invoice:

     

    Cost Code

    Description

     

    001

     

    Litigation Video and Graphics:

     

    Video and Graphics used at depositions, arbitration and trial.

     

     

     

    002

    Litigation Support Data Services:

     

    This covers the range of work such as: electronic discovery and database creation, hosting, administration and so forth. Value added services such as OCR, programming, forensics, conversions, and media creation are all “Litigation Support Data Services”.

     

     

     

    003

    Scanning and Printing:

     

    Photocopying paper, scanning paper or printing a paper set from electronic source (a/k/a “blow backs”).

     

     

     

    004

    Court Reporting Services – Non-Video

     

    Court reporters and their non-video associated costs.

     

     

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    About Litigation Support Technical Standards

    This document was initially designed to eliminate any discrepancy between firm technical needs and how the vendor created the technical aspect of their products. Litigation Support spends needless hours changing the vendor delivery. The firm pays for product that litigation support will have to modify. Today, the document covers as many technical requirements as possible for as many types of discovery and software as possible.

    To get a good idea of the reason for these explicit directions, please visit the final section of this document entitled, “Things not to do”. All of these examples are from real life. All of these examples caused headaches, delaying reviews, productions and more.

    I hope that this document is helpful to you.

























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